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danamania Official 68k Muse Australia 1193 Posts	Posted - 06 Apr 2003 : 03:33:28 So y'know how it is. One afternoon you're a little bored, and illustrator is open, you start drawing and come up with... http://www.danamania.com/temp/quadras.jpg It's a pointless little timeline of when different model quadras were released, and shows a few things visually all at once. First off - how long did the 900/950 want to hang around?! I suppose being the biggest kid on the block they could really push their way through, but that's a good few years!. The little flat 610 was barely around for 6 months before fading away - Of course I missed out on putting the centrises in there. oops! By the look of things, the Q800 was a replacement for the Q700... appearing around the same time as the latter disappeared. October 1993 would have been an interesting time too - seven quadras were all available at the same time!. Rather neat. Then things ended how they began - a 9x0 as big brother, with a little sibling paired. Just curious stuff :). I should get together a few more timelines - Mac IIs and Powerbooks, perhaps. dana
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 06 Apr 2003 : 05:39:14 Nice piccie! Buuuuutttttt......wasn't the Q950 and WGS 95 discontinued in 1993? -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
G4from128k Full Member USA 873 Posts	Posted - 06 Apr 2003 : 06:20:47 Very nice graphic that sums it all up! If you add faint horizontal lines between the models, it will make it easier to scan across from model to the time block. Now, if you are really bored, you could create the timelines for ALL macs. G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist by Night: Colonel of Truth, Justice, and the Macintosh Way Reserve Officer in 68kMLA Cantankerous Coot Contingent
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 06 Apr 2003 : 06:30:13 Well well well you learn something new everyday! -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
shaktiman Senior Member United Kingdom 1226 Posts	Posted - 06 Apr 2003 : 10:50:24 It's really great dana A Quadra facts page would be good, specifying time line, & perhaps fastest & slowest & does anyone know Top Trumps? My Quadra beats yours on speed, but yours wins on cuteness! Perhaps a new forum will give responses from the members here. I'm of to the Quadra forums. shaktiman Quadra 840av, prettymuchmaxedout8xcd drive,3 monitors 15" & 14" & 14" os 8.1 , 12 meg ram, 500 meg hard drive Performa400(asleepintheattick)
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 06 Apr 2003 : 13:31:59 Hey! Can I use that graphic in the MLAgazine? Also, dana, do you have other graphics that the MLAgazine could use? (I should really ask of this 'permission' thing for one that I got from your site, the large illustration of the Q605) the cover feature of the MLAgazine is "Quadras" and that is a GREAT graphic for it :D (the timeline too) may I publish it? of course, giving credit where it is due Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
Jobf Junior Member United Kingdom 162 Posts	Posted - 07 Apr 2003 : 02:48:42 quote: A Quadra facts page would be good, specifying time line, & perhaps fastest & slowest & does anyone know Top Trumps? My Quadra beats yours on speed, but yours wins on cuteness! Hey Shak, 68k Top Trumps would rule! What categories could you have to make it a fair game? * Speed (relative, out of 10) * Looks (out of 10) * Max Mem (Mb) * Original Price ($) * Expandability (relative, out of 10) * Portability (relative, out of 10) 6 categories enough? Other suggestions? Its gonna be fairish for Powerbooks & qudras alike, hence the portability/price category - so a Powerbook could 'beat' a Quadra if the correct stat was chosen. I quite fancy doing this, and making it available for download. People could print it out on card and play it with other 68k fans! (For those not familiar with top trumps. As an example - Theme of Motor cars. Various stats printed on cards in different categories. Cards shuffled and deal out whole deck between two players. Players look at card, & first player picks category. eg 'Speed 145mph' Opponent reveals their speed of their card - eg 130mph. First player 'wins' and takes opponents card and puts in at the bottom of their pile, along with the card they won with. Winning player gets to pick category again. Play until one player has all the cards.) http://www.playaday.com/collect/trumps.htm Jobf http://jobf.kicks-ass.org
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 07 Apr 2003 : 06:19:57 HUH? a 68k card game???? dana - OK I can wait to put the graphic in... I don't have any articles or anything else yet either... so it's all cool Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 07 Apr 2003 : 20:01:51 hey it's all cool... I'll probably seperate the PB from the Quadra timelines and use them both eventually...! (adding to my sig: "I was liberated... by my 68k mac") (it's an article I'm doing for the MLAgazine) Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide

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